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call Gothic archite6liire was confined folely 

 to religious buildings, and never entered into 

 the decoration of private houfes. Thorpe's 

 ornaments on the baluflrades, porches, and 

 outfides of v/indows are barbarous and un- 

 gracefull, and fome of his vafh windows 

 advance outwards in a fharp angle ; but 

 there is judgment in his difpofitions of 

 apartments and offices, and he allots mod 

 ample fpaces for halls, flaircafes and cham- 

 bers of (late. He appears alfo to have re- 

 fided at Paris, and even feems to have been 

 employed there ; at lead he gives altera- 

 tions for the queen-mother's houfe Faber 

 Sl GermainSy which I fuppofe means the 

 Luxembourg in the Fauxbourg St. Ger- 

 main, and a plan of the houfe of monfieur 

 Jammet (Zamet.) 



There are feveral other fmaller feats and 

 houfes in the book, fome with the names 

 of the gentlemen for whom they were built. 

 One, which he calls Cannons^ his Father 

 Fakes houfe ; and another is a whimfical 

 edifice defigned for himfelf, and forming 

 the initial letters of his name IT conjoined 

 by a corridore [which 1 have expreffed by 

 T 2 the 



